Time Passes By & Memories Fade

Summary: Sequel to Galaxy of stars Three years after the Mars explosion, everything seems at peace… however one by one people are disappearing and reported dead. Can this evil be more so than the last? Slightly more random than last time…

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Chapter 11: Voice in the Distant Truth

Nadesico travelled through space, having no set course or heading. They were wondering, however most of the crew did not know that.

"Nyah... Fuji... do you know where we're heading?" asked Eiji as he bounded unto deck.

"Saa... I wonder...?" answered Syuusuke as he looked at their voyage route.

"Why do I have a weird feeling that we're going round in circles?" said Yuuta

"We're not," said Hari as he stared at his screen. "We've passed several different colonies and planets..."

"And we still haven't found anything," muttered Yuuta. "How long has it been?"

"Ten hours, twenty minutes, 30 seconds and counting," said Hari automatically.

"Must you be so precise? You sound like Inui," said Yuuta with a shiver and imagined Hari making Inui juice. 'Don't even go there...'

"Sigh... this is boring," muttered Keigo. "Ore-sama demands that something happens."

"There's a tennis racquet," said Seiichi.

"We can't play tennis now," said Yuuta.

"No... I mean there's a tennis racquet in front of us," said Seiichi and he transmitted his image on a wide screen. Sure enough... they saw surround by empty space of stars, a red tennis racquet.

"What the hell... who would dump a perfectly good racquet into place?" asked Eiji, "Shame on them!"

"But what is it doing in the middle of space?" asked Syuusuke.

"Or more importantly how did it come here?" asked Seiichi.

"It may have drifted with some space junk," said Kunimitsu.

"But... it's completely empty space here... if it drifted wouldn't you think that there would be other stuff too?" asked Keigo.

"There should be at least something else too," said Yuuta.

"Is that... a tennis racquet?" asked Jun with a frown as he came onto the bridge.

"Yes..." answered Seiichi.

"I want you to scan the area around and see if there is anything else that the radar hasn't picked up on," said Jun.

Minutes passed before there was more news...

"Sir... it seems that there is more space junk," said Hari hesitantly.

"But..." provided Jun, as he waited for Hari to continue.

"Well... please look on the screen," said Hari as he placed his findings on screen. On the big screen everything was black except for several numerous red dots.

"Thos red dots are abnormalities... something that shouldn't be in space... like that racquet," provided Hari, as the red dot at the bottom of the screen was labelled, 'racquet...'

"But more importantly," continued Hari, "is the pattern..."

The red dots were then connected by a yellow line...

"It's like a trail!" said Seiichi.

"Does it lead to anything?" asked Jun.

"Our scanners are picking up on anything,' said Hari. "They trail just stops abruptly for the next 5 Kilometre."

"What's after that then?" asked Yuuta.

"Our scanners can't reach that far," said Hari.

"Follow the trail" said Jun.

"Are you sure?" asked Kunimitsu.

"Yes..." said Jun. "On the way please pick up the things..."

"You mean..." started Yuuta.

"Please inform a pilot to go collect the racquet," said Jun.

Just as soon as that was said, an image appeared deep in space. It was like watching a movie. The place where the Nadesico was and image zoom through space, and slowed down when it reached a black fortress.

"Nadesico..." called out a distant quiet voice, "If you receive this message then you are close to what you seek..."

The image then showed them the inside of the so called fortress and Hari's eyes widened.

"The park...!"

"You will soon face them..." said the quiet voice.

"Many things have happened there," continued the voice, "Many horrible things..."

"What... kind of horrible things?" asked Eiji shakily.

Camera footage appeared, and to their horror they watched as a woman in her late twenties stumbled to her feet as she got off a table in which was once lying on. She screams out in pain when from under her ragged clothes something bulged. Large hairy arms broke through the cloth. Her small frail body could not accommodate the new weight and she collapsed to the floor. Then the footage was cut...

"That is only a portion of what the woman when through," said the voice. "Many others have faced worse and some have faced the same..."

"Many of the animals that were experimented on, could not be classified as animals by the end of their experiment..."

The image disappeared and they were faced with the emptiness of space.

"What the hell was that?" asked Yuuta.

"It's like a spirit was speaking to us," said Syuusuke.

"A ghost of an experiment?" asked Keigo.

"Who came to warn us what was happening?" questioned Hari with a raised eyebrow, "I don't think that's the case..."

"Oi... did anyone order for a space racquet?" asked Saburota as he appeared with the red racquet moments later.

Inez who appeared just behind him took the racquet to examine, "How curious..."

"What's curious?" asked Hari.

"A chip..." said Inez, as she pulled out a microchip from the racquet, "Strange... i've never seen something like this before... Mr. Seiya may want to have a look..."

Inez then left with the chip and left behind the racquet.

"Does she always just come and go like that?" asked Eiji.

"Usually she pops up on screen randomly when someone asks a questions somewhere..." said Jun.


"What's the news?" asked Jun to Seiya.

"It's a small projector," said Seiya, "I've never seen one this small before, it's amazing!!! Who ever made such a thing is a genius... this thing is small but can project large things... it could transmit and receive signals too!!! These babies would have taken forever to make..."

"Captain..." said Seiichi as he appeared on screen. "We've hit a tennis ball..."

"We hit a tennis ball?" asked Jun.

"Well... it was more like the tennis ball came out of nowhere and hit the screen..." explained Seiichi.

"And...?"

"I think you should come to the bridge and take a look at this," said Seiichi and then disappeared.

On the bridge

"What is it?" asked Jun as he rushed onto the bridge.

Everyone pointed to the hologram outside the window. There, Jun saw a picture of an man, his hair was brown and slick and his eyes were narrow with the colour of hazel.

"That's the guy in the lab," whispered Hari.

"Doctor Jekyll," said the voice once again, "His obsession with science, logic and how everything has worked gave him esteemed ovation in the science word."

"But he disappeared ten years ago," said Jun.

"With the growth of knowledge, came the thirst for power," continued the voice. "He came to the conclusion that what the Martians had would strengthen armies everywhere... allowing for surprise attacks and instant escapes..."

"However he, ten years ago he tried to recruit many of the Martian into his army... all of them declined..."

"Soon after he decided that if he could not force them to work with him, so he decided that he would find out the secret to Boson jumping so he could create his perfect soldiers..."

"Who are you?" asked Jun.

Nothing was said after that and the image disappeared.

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